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- I've always been intrigued by the Western lifestyle.
I grew up around it.
I rode saddle bronc horses
for about 15 years, professionally.
I was a rodeo coach at Blue Mountain Community College
for 10 years.
A little fresh.
- [Sammy] Yeah, he's feeling good that one.
- The horse is feeling good.
My family's always participated in it,
and now my kids have participated in it.
- So this is our barn.
We have 20 head of horses, rodeo horses,
brood mares, babies.
Horses that we raise.
We usually raise, oh, anywhere from two to three a year.
We're kind of small.
We spend most time rodeo-in'.
My oldest son is 15 and he high school rodeos.
My youngest is seven and he peewee rodeos.
Yeah, go on buddy.
And Shawn and I both pro rodeo,
so it's the moment we get up, get the kids up,
get horses fed, they're taken care of.
Stalls cleaned.
I do homeschool, so it's a hectic schedule.
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- [Shawn] Farm City Fence is a residential, commercial,
industrial, fence company.
- [Ted] There's a building that sits here somewhere.
- [Shawn] This ain't a fence here.
- No, that's my overdraw.
I met Shawn in fourth grade.
We just hit it off.
His dad and mom basically took me in.
- [Shawn] We spent a lot of time together
as kids, fishing, hunting, playing basketball.
It was a good fit.
- I come from kind of a single parent home.
One day Shawn and his dad were going hunting.
I was kind of bummed about it,
and I didn't really have that opportunity at that point
not having a dad around,
Tic, his dad, come in and sat down on the bed next to me,
and put his arm around me and said,
"Hey, it'll be okay, I'm here,
you're part of my family now."
From then on we went,
I got to go hunting with him,
and it was it was a life changer.
- This is the first trailer.
We eventually got this truck, which was our first truck.
We were big time, we thought. (laughs)
- Yeah, we were thinking we were big time.
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A huge part of our success is our communication,
not only between Shawn and I on projects, but Sammy.
We round table it and kind of come up with a plan,
and it's been our success.
To get us to this level,
to work for the customers that we work for.
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- [Sammy] With Farm City Fence, I am the CFO,
so I help oversee all the contracts before they go out.
The market for the type of fence is always changing,
upgrades and different materials.
So it's a learning curve always.
- [Ted] We started working with AWS about 10 years ago,
to install high security fences around their sites.
- [Shawn] I think their partnership with us has taught us
to really step back and research what we're getting into,
and also think forward as far as you can.
Fence here is a K rated crash fence,
so vehicles cannot penetrate past it.
- [Ted] When AWS asked us to develop this fence,
it was a big task at the time.
- We sat down and did our homework on it.
I call it the skittle cowboy try.
At the end of the day,
we determined that it was just a fence,
so if it was level and straight, we could build it.
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I think we've grown with AWS,
they demand a lot but they also put back in a lot,
to not only the local contractors that works for 'em,
but the community as well.
- [Ted] Several businesses, not just ours,
have benefited from the growth that they've brought here.
My son Devin
runs the residential light commercial side of the business.
- I wanted to follow in my father's footsteps,
so I came on full-time here,
started digging holes and packing concrete.
Slowly worked my way up to a management position,
where I was a foreman over our crew for a while,
but now I'm in the office.
Best thing about working here
is definitely the family environment.
- [Ted] Shawn and I are like brothers.
I love getting out of bed and coming to shop.
For him and I to be able to
create an opportunity like this,
and then have our kids and close friends,
come up and work with us,
has been a very rewarding part of my life.
Those people are gonna continue
to keep this business thriving and going forward,
our dream.
- [Shawn] I feel fortunate to obviously have my company,
but also I've worked hard for it.
That's kind of a give and take of just me, I guess (laughs).
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